#led

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#bible #distresses #failed #give #give me

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#apparent failure #blessing #failed #failure #god

There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled. ↗

— Spike Lee

#affirmative #affirmative action #arrived #black #black and white

There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic. ↗

— Spike Lee

#cannot #character #film #jewish #labeled

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#dreadful #else #exciting #feel #go

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#enough #fair #good #had #insult

In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#deserted #forced #i #january #labor

I've traveled around the country and I read local newspapers and all of that, and it's a sad, sad thing to go from city to city and see the small newspapers and they're tiny. They're tiny not only in size but also in scope. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#around #city #country #go #i

One of the problems is that everybody is used to the old-fashioned debate system, which is very controlled, and where the moderator plays a more active role. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#active role #controlled #debate #everybody #more

I've always done roles that really appealed to me on a gut level and which I found inspiring. ↗

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

#appealed #done #found #gut #i